Firefox Nightly now lets you create, Switch & Manage profiles like Chrome with themes, avatars to seperate work and personal browsing.
    • lud@lemm.ee
      7·
      16 hours ago

      Because it’s integrated into the GUI similar to how pretty much every other browser does it, of course .

  • LittleBobbyTables@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    This is excellent news. This is one of the biggest features that I’ve wanted out of Firefox for years, and one of the reasons I’ve kept Chromium as a secondary browser all this time.

    I do remember seeing a community-made GitHub project that added a profile switcher to Firefox, which looked pretty good, but it also required installing an executable somewhere on the system, which I’m not exactly keen on.

    I think Zen Browser has a built-in profile switcher, but it also changes a bunch of core UI elements… I just want Firefox with a profile switcher, lol.

  • MangoPenguinEnglish
    23·
    2 days ago

    At the moment, running different profiles simultaneously is not possible

    That’s the one feature I really want from Firefox profiles!

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      4·
      15 hours ago

      I feel like this hasn’t been said enough: Multi-account containers are already all I need.

    • Joël de Bruijn@lemmy.ml
      26·
      2 days ago

      At the moment, running different profiles simultaneously is not possible

      Bullocks. I run 2 or 3 profiles at the same time. For over 2 years now. Just easier now.

      • MangoPenguinEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        Yeah but you have to do it with separate launch arguments.

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
        5·
        2 days ago

        @MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone Me too. At least I used to have a separate profile for PDF viewing, which had its own plugins installed. It can be done by using commandline options to select what profile to use, like in --profile or -P (i forgot which of them I used actually). Just created a script for it (Bash script in Linux) and associated PDF files with it as if it was a separate program.

        What they mean in the article is probably its not possible with the GUI only of Firefox. They totally ignored the commandline options.

        • PoolloverNathan@programming.dev
          2·
          15 hours ago

          IIRC, -p launches a profile by path, and -P launches the GUI for selecting/creating a profile. this is wrong, -P specifies a profile path. I forgot how to open the manager.

          • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
            1·
            14 hours ago

            Type in the terminal firefox --help to see all options. You can open the manager with firefox --ProfileManager. I used to create a profile this way and then either with -P or -p was using that profile.

      • sanpo@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        2 days ago

        Hopefully it’s not an actual regression in the latest version, because that’d be terrible.

    • Landless2029@lemmy.world
      14·
      2 days ago

      At the moment, running different profiles simultaneously is not possible

      Bullshit. I’ve been multiboxing Firefox for years.

      You need to run firefox.exe -p to open profile manager and then create all the profiles you want. Then create shortcuts to each new profile. firefox.exe -p ProfileName

      This allows you to run a personal profile, work profile and porn profile simultaneously without crossing streams.

      • Lemmchen@feddit.org
        4·
        19 hours ago

        Under Linux you can also start a throwaway profile by running firefox -P $(mktemp -d) (note the capital P for path)

    • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
      15·
      2 days ago

      It already just works, just go to about:profiles and launch as another profile. There’s also have container tabs, so no need for a separate profile when you only need isolation.

      • MangoPenguinEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Would be nice if they just added a profile manager with a button though.

        • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
          4·
          2 days ago

          I just have about:profile as the first on my bookmark toolbar. You can also make a shortcut to firefox --ProfileManager in your OS.

    • wallybeavis@lemmings.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      That’s unfortunate, I was hoping for a ‘workspaces’ like feature as in Opera. I run FF and Opera simultaneaously to segregate my tabs. It would be really nice if we could get something like that extended to profiles, so I could just run FF

        • wallybeavis@lemmings.world
          3·
          2 days ago

          The last time I looked at containers I think it was an add-on, but I don’t think (and please correct me if I’m wrong), it filtered or made active the current viewable tabs.

          In Opera there’s an icon list on the left and depending on which one is selected those are the only tabs displayed, and/or made active. I’ll take another look at FF containers.

          Someone mentioned ‘about:profiles’ above, I think that may be closer to what I’m looking for, maybe that combined with containers can reduce my foot print to just Firefox, thanks for the suggestion

    • zeca@lemmy.eco.br
      2·
      16 hours ago

      “for people”

      This doesn’t mean a lot for people who don’t know about people, or dont want to look it up.

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
      13·
      2 days ago

      That just means it’s in active development and will come to the beta browser soon, and then to the stable version.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Cool. I’ve been thinking they should just make that available somewhere for quite a while now, since about:profiles was already pretty usable, it was just impossible to find for normal users. But that they’re improving the user experience at the same time is quite welcome, too.